Resilient National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications: Service Metrics

Abstract

Resilient communications are critically important in the event of a national security crisis or disaster. In the event of a significant threat to public safety, communications for national security and emergency preparedness must continue to provide an acceptable level of service for senior leader decision makers and first responders. If primary communications are lost, then resiliency is the ability for rapid and effective reconstitution or utilization of alternate means. This paper introduces concepts of communications resilience and suggests appropriate service metrics. The concepts of survivability, tolerance, flexibility, and capacity are used to define system tolerance, system flexibility, and system capacity.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA628305

Entities

People

  • Robert . Sneddon
  • Serena Chan

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cellular Networks
  • Command And Control
  • Communication Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Disasters
  • Emergencies
  • Emergency Response
  • First Responders
  • Mobile Phones
  • National Security
  • Petri Nets
  • Probability
  • Reliability
  • Resilience
  • Security
  • Survivability
  • Voice Communications

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.